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• On stage you look much larger than you are. You can have subtle changes of timing; how you place a punchline in a joke or movement or emotion according to an audience.

  Sylvester McCoy

  Looks, Movement, Emotion

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it's bloodless, a little too fictional.

  Aimee Mann

  Littles, Too Much, Details

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• I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.

  Gary McCord

  Hate, Trying, Sound

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• There's a line of dancers waiting to get into Sydney Dance Company.

  Graeme Murphy

  Dancer, Waiting, Company

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• If I get two lines in the script, I somehow turn it into 20. I've got a bit of a bad habit of doing that, of just embellishing my little moment.

  Rebel Wilson

  Two, Littles, Scripts

  "Q&A: Rebel Wilson". Interview with Arylene Westlake, www.perthnow.com.au. January 28, 2012.

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• I think television scripts have become really intriguing and well-done. And writers have stopped drawing any actual line between film and television they used to never cross.

  Natalie Zea

  Thinking, Drawing, Film And Television

  "Natalie Zea of The Following". Interview with Matt Goulet, www.esquire.com. January 23, 2013.

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• Perhaps the worst software technology of all time was the use of physical lines of code [for metrics]. Continued use of this approach, in the author's opinion, should be considered professional malpractice.

  Capers Jones

  Technology, Use, Metrics

  Capers Jones (1997). “Applied Software Measurement: Assuring Productivity and Quality”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• The use of lines of code metrics for productivity and quality studies [is] to be regarded as professional malpractice starting in 1995.

  Capers Jones

  Quality, Use, Metrics

  Capers Jones (1994). “Assessment and Control of Software Risks”, Prentice Hall

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• I wasn't going to let Jerry Sloan embarrass me, because basketball had a proper role in my life. I suspected my basketball philosophy wasn't the bottom line anyway.

  John Amaechi

  Basketball, Philosophy, Roles

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• I want to go down in history in a chapter marked miscellaneous because the writers could find no other way to categorize me In this world where classification is key I want to erase the straight lines So I can be me

  Staceyann Chin

  Keys, Way, World

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• At this point in my career I feel that the Tour takes priority. There may come a time at some point down the line where other races may take preference, but for 2015, it's the Tour.

  Chris Froome

  Careers, Race, Priorities

  "Team Sky's Chris Froome confirms he will ride the 2015 Tour de France" by Ed Aarons, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2014.

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• One common way of judging whether housing's price is in line with its fundamental value is to consider the ratio of housing prices to rents. This is analogous to the ratio of prices to dividends for stocks.

  Janet Yellen

  Judging, Ratios, Way

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• Clothes, when abstracted from the flow of present time and their transmogrifying function on the human body, and seen as forms in themselves, are strange tubes and excrescences worthy of being classed with such facial decorations as the ring through the nose or the lip-stretching disk. But how enchanting they become when seen togetherwith the qualities they bestow on their wearer! What happens then is no less than the infusion, into some tangled lines on a piece of paper, of the meaning of a great word.

  Robert Musil

  Clothes, Tangled, Quality

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• I have values. But morals are Christian. There's no religion here. Values. Don't hurt when you don't need to, but don't let anybody step over that line - it's an invisible line, but it's respect for somebody's space.

  John Lydon

  Christian, Hurt, Space

  "'This is my Britain. Our Britain. Not some German tourist's'". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2002.

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• Why do I find it hard to write the next line?

  Gary Kemp

  Writing, Next, Hard

  "True". Song by Gary Kemp, April 14, 1983.

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• The House of Representatives was not designed to sit idly by and rubberstamp every piece of legislation sent their way by the Senate, especially legislation passed on a straight party line vote under the spurious policy of reconciliation.

  Neal Boortz

  Party, House, Way

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• You have to lead your life according to your ideas. Spend all your money and live life in line with what you are fighting for. I hate it when rich people try to be Communists. I think that’s obscene.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Hate, Live Life, Fighting

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• When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  War, Writing, Two

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• As a revolutionary people, we Americans won a probable victory over the best and biggest army in the world because we learned to fight from the Indians. You can do a lot of damage with a Kentucky rifle from behind a tree. You don't put on a peaked hat and a red coat and white leggings and crossed white bandoleers with a big silver buckle in the center of the X and march uphill into a line of Howitzers loaded with chain and chopped horseshoes.

  James Lee

  Army, Fighting, Kentucky

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• People actually ask me why I bring in projects on budget and on time. It seems I am not living up to the fashionable genius role. I really enjoy when a project gets down to the wire, and through sheer force of will and faith in our process, we cross the goal line, when most people thought it impossible.

  Curtis W. Fentress

  People, Goal, Wire

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• I remember my first commercial. This is really great 'Degrassi' trivia: The character Toby on 'Degrassi,' played by Jake Goldsbie, he and I were in both of our first commercial ever when we were four. It was for Tiger Toys, this old Game Boy-type thing. Both of our lines were, 'Mommy, I can do it!

  Charlotte Arnold

  Character, Boys, Games

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• And in the end, bin Laden died in a squalid suburban compound surrounded by his wives and children and far from the front lines of his holy war.

  Peter Bergen

  Children, War, Wife

  "A visit to Osama bin Laden's lair" by Peter Bergen, www.cnn.com. May 3, 2012.

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• A lot of people in Hollywood, and everywhere pretty much, operate on fear. No one wants to get fired, so everyone's scared to take a chance. There's money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.

  Billy Eichner

  Careers, People, Hollywood

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• I sat down one night and wrote the line rock, rock, rock everybody.

  Bill Haley

  Night, Rocks, Sat

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• The people of the United States don't recognize it, but the oil industry has given the greatest gift to the people of the nation, and that gift is the low cost of energy. Bottom line is this enables the country to be very competitive manufacturing-wise and in the world economy.

  Ray L. Hunt

  Wise, Country, Oil

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